The Four Key Metrics of DevOps (FKM) have become very popular for measuring IT-performance and DevOps adoption. However, the measurement of the four metrics deployment frequency, lead time for change, time to restore service and change failure rate is often don manually and through surveys – with only few data points. In this work we evaluated how the FKM can be measured automatically and developed a prototype for the automatic measurement of the FKMs. We then evaluated if the measurement is valuable for practitioners in a company. The analysis show that the chosen measurement approach is both suit-able and the results valuable for the team with respect to measuring the software delivery performance.
The future isn’t certain or predictable. That doesn’t mean we give up and wait for the future to arrive. Instead, we study the future using concepts from future studies, also known as strategic foresight. In this case, we will look at the Future of A…
